Authors / Maya Rosen
Maya Rosen is an assistant editor at Jewish Currents.
News Desk
No School in Umm al-Khair
In a Palestinian village cut off from its schoolhouse, children ask for education.
Maya Rosen April 22, 2026
Feature
Dispatches From Catastrophe
Twenty-three Palestinians reflect on the lives they have lost and the political futures that have been foreclosed in the wake of genocide.
Maya Rosen and Jonathan Shamir April 16, 2026
News Desk
Support for Settlement of Lebanon Goes Mainstream in Israel
What was once a fringe curiosity is now an organized movement with broad governmental and public support.
Maya Rosen April 14, 2026
Conversation
Is Israel’s Economy Collapsing?
Labor historian Joel Beinin argues that narratives of imminent economic demise overlook sources of Israel’s resilience—and the work needed to challenge them.
Maya Rosen March 25, 2026
News Desk
Under Cover of War, Israel Speeds Up Seizures of Palestinian Land
Courts had halted a military plan to wall off an area of the Jordan Valley. Since the war, it’s back on.
Maya Rosen March 19, 2026
Conversation
“Giving Palestinians Fewer Rights than Eichmann Received”
Sociologist Ron Dudai discusses the new death penalty bill that has become a vehicle for the Israeli right’s revenge.
Maya Rosen February 16, 2026
Report
The Olive Harvest Deportations
Alarmed by efforts to publicize its violence against Palestinians, Israel is moving to expel international solidarity activists from the occupied West Bank.
Maya Rosen November 3, 2025
Report
Degrees of Separation
Israel’s new international college programs offer American students an escape from campus activism while training them as state cheerleaders.
Maya Rosen November 2, 2025
Obituary
Remembering Awdah Hathaleen
The Palestinian activist turned hospitality into a tool of sabotage against the ongoing Nakba.
Maya Rosen and Erez Bleicher August 21, 2025
Chevruta
How Should Activists Relate to Risk?
An investigation through Jewish text, in the wake of escalating violence in the West Bank against Palestinians and their allies
Aryeh Bernstein May 14, 2025
Dispatch
After the Ceasefire
Three Palestinians from northern Gaza reflect on returning to their devastated homes.
Ahmad Abu Yahia, Hamza Salha, and Aisha February 7, 2025
Essay
The Destruction of Worlds
A reading of Parshat Breishit
Maya Rosen October 25, 2024
Report
Inside the Movement to Settle Southern Lebanon
Building on the successes of the Israeli settler movement, a new ultra-right group is seeking to open yet another front for conquest.
Maya Rosen August 19, 2024
Dispatch
“Any Second They Could Come”
As Israeli demolitions and settler attacks escalate, Palestinians in the village of Umm al-Khair stare down the possibility of expulsion.
Maya Rosen July 11, 2024
Report
The Rise of October 7th Tourism
Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood.
Maya Rosen July 3, 2024
Essay
Co-Resistance at a Crossroads
As anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank reaches new heights, a beleaguered movement gathers to reflect.
Maya Rosen April 16, 2024
Essay
Facing Amalek
Reading the biblical injunction to genocide amid a genocide
Maya Rosen March 22, 2024
Report
Israeli Aid Policies Drive Starvation
US initiatives to airdrop and ship aid to Gaza are logistical workarounds to a political problem.
Elisheva Goldberg and Maya Rosen March 12, 2024
Report
Israel’s Crackdown on Hebron
Intensified restrictions on Palestinian life in the West Bank city, introduced after October 7th, could become permanent and even spread elsewhere.
Maya Rosen February 13, 2024
Report
The Epidemiological War on Gaza
Disease is poised to become an even deadlier second front in Israel’s assault on the besieged Strip.
Maya Rosen January 5, 2024
Report
Hostages’ Families Fight to Be Heard
The families of those held in Gaza have faced violence and neglect in their quest to retrieve their loved ones.
Maya Rosen November 15, 2023
Obituary
Remembering Khalil Abu Yahia
The Gazan scholar and activist, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month, believed in the radical potential of solidarity.
Maya Rosen and Erez Bleicher November 6, 2023
Dispatch
“We Have Lost the Ability to Provide True Care”
Three doctors describe coping with fatal shortages and agonizing choices in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals.
Hammam Alloh, Yousef Al-Akkad, and Reda Abu Assi October 30, 2023
Dispatch
Dispatches from the West Bank
In the West Bank, violence and dispossession intensify as the line between settler and soldier is fast disappearing.
Awdah Hathaleen, Luna, Shoug Adra, Ghassan Najjar, and Abu Suliman October 20, 2023
Dispatch
Dispatches from Gaza
Three Palestinians describe life under constant Israeli bombardment—and lay out their visions for liberation.
Mohammed Zraiy, Khalil Abu Yahia, and Rania Hussein October 17, 2023
Conversation
Reclaiming a Minor Literature
The editor of diasporic Hebrew journal Mikan Ve’eylakh seeks to recover the possibilities of Hebrew language not tied to the State of Israel.
Maya Rosen February 21, 2022
Photo Essay
Portraits of Resistance in Masafer Yatta
Israel’s Supreme Court will soon decide the case of the residents of Masafer Yatta, who have lived for decades under the threat of displacement by the military.
Emily Glick November 10, 2021
Dispatch
Shabbat Terror in the West Bank
For religious Zionist settlers in the South Hebron Hills, attacks on Palestinians have become a Shabbat afternoon pastime.
Maya Rosen September 9, 2021
Essay
This Purim, Stand Against Kahanism
We are still living with the consequences of the Hebron massacre.
Maya Rosen March 20, 2019
